You should go to photo school if you want structured learning. Groundwork from the fundamentals to the bigger concepts. It will move too slowly for many of you, too fast for others. There are lots of great programs, worldwide.
If you don’t do better with structured learning and you are highly motivated and prefer real world experience, don’t go. Instead, teach yourself, take workshops, get mentors, read books, build your support network, work for other people. And most importantly take a helluva lot of photographs. Dig the long ditch that it takes to learn to make a living with photographs.
If this is too simple a post for you, then go to photo school.
Well I think the CreateLive concept is even a bigger statement than the one made in this post.
Just a newbee’s perspective : one or the other anyways : Long is the road towards self satisfaction, isn’t it what this is all about ? the path should be enjoyed as much as the goal. And you can take it : I’m a long way from the goal, but already enjoying my little stinky bastard self …
Cheers !
I loved your last line 🙂 It says so much so shrewdly 😛
I’m asked this a lot as well, my response is that while Google taught me the technical side of photography, it wasn’t until I went to film school that I learned story through image. Now that 99.9% of my work is documentary photography the story telling film aspect has helped ten-fold. My $0.02.
School, so far I’ve been self taught, and found myself somewhat lost.. in need of some quick (3 month part time) courses just to learn more studio lighting, and clean commercial tricks.
You should go to school, you should do an apprenticeship. I am really hacked off with the quick fix culture with vocatonal professions. Yes you can read a book or hang round like a lapdog waiting for tweet or a blog post to get a nugget.
You learn the hard way with people who themselves who went through it.
You learn the art of management,teamwork and business.
Sorry but joey l is as far as i am concerned a precocious brat, go to school.
Simple